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E. R. PROBERT.

RECORD CARD HOLDER FOR FREIGHT CARS AND OTHER PURPOSES.

APPLICATION HLED IAN-27, I916.

1,194,065. Patented Aug. 8, 1916.

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EDWIN R. rnoBEnT, 0E covrneroiv, KENTUCKY, ASSIGNDR TO THE MOESCI-IL- EDWARDSCORRUGATING COMPANY, OF COVING'ION, KENTUCKY, A CORPO- RATION OF KENTUCKY.

RECORD-CARD HOLDER FOR FREIGHT-CARS AND OTHER PURPOSES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 1916.

Application filed January 2'7, 1916. Serial No. 74,716.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, EDWIN It. PRoBEuT, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Covington, in the county of Kenton and State of Kentucky, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Record-Card Holders for Freight- Gars and other Purposes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to record or card tablet receptacles and especially to holders used on freight-cars or the like to contain route-cards, and the object thereof is to provide a casing or holder that is adapted to conceal and protect the record or route cards on the sides of freight-cars, or like exposed positions, whereby those authorized to use such records may have ready access to them and at the same time maintaining such records free from mutilation, exposure and the elements, and more especially to water or other liquids that are readily excluded or shed therefrom.

The details of structure of this invention will be fully hereinafter referred to and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view showing my device in closed position on a fragmentary portion of ,a freight-car or other supportingobject for use; Fig. 2, a perspective view of the device, shown in its open position for making or observing a record or route card, or removing or replacing such cards; Fig. 3, a front view of the backing or base-plate of the device; Fig. i, a rear elevation of the slidable facing or cover-plate; Fig. 5, a perpendicular section taken along the middle of the device in the open position seen in 2, but with the cover-plate partly lowered ever the record sheets or cards; Fig. 6, a fragmentary transverse section showing the interlocking guide-way on the baseplate for the cover-plate and the manner of attachment to a fragment of the car-side or support; Fig. 7, a vertical section taken on the dotted-line a, a of Fig. 3; and Fig. 8, a vertical section taken on the dotted-line b, b of Fig. 3.

1 indicates the backing or base-plate having along its opposite vertical edges the V- shape formation or crimps 2 to receive the nails 3 or other fa stenings to secure the baseplate to the car-side 4 or other suitable sup port whereon the device is to be used. Along the outer edges of the V-shape formations 2, I provide inverted-L-shape formations or extensions 5, whose inner edges are somewhat spaced away from the face of the car-side t and duly seamed, for stiffening and strengthening, as best shown in Fig. 2. The formations 5 provide guideways along the opposite vertical edges of said backing 1.

6 indicates a facing or cover-plate whose opposite edges are shouldered at 7 and are thence turned outwardly at 8", the outer edges of the latter being provided with inwardly-disposed L-shape extensions 9 that slidingly-interlock with the inverted-L-shape members 5 of the backing 1, as best seen in Fig. 2. The inner edges of the members 9 have seamed-extensions 10 that freely engage the seamed-members 5 when the cover-plate 6 is to be reciprocated vertically along the base-plate. This interlocking feature serves to make a joint that is free from the entrance of rain and the like along the opposite vertical sides of the device herein.

The cover-plate 6 has an inwardly-turned upper end 11 with a depending, rear-guard extension 11 to form a closure against water and the like. The upper ends of the crimps or formations 2 are flattened at 11 to allow the rear-guard 11 to freely pass downward when the cover-plate 6 is at its lowest closed position, and frictionally clamp and cover the base-plate against leakage at its upper end when said cover-plate is closed.

The said members 1 and 6 are made of sheet-metal that is readily bent into shape to produce the interlocking slidable edges just described and, also, to provide for other formations that are required in the structure herein and which I will now proceed to describe.

12 isan outwardly-turned flange, forming a manipulating-handle at the lower end or the cover-plate 6.

The backing or base-plate 1 has a pair of arc-shape rearwardly-extending or bulged ribs or beads 13 made therein a little above mid-height, similar formations 14 being made in the said base-plate 1 near its lower end, all as best seen in Fig. 3. Just below said bead-formations 13 and 14 I pierce arcshape slots 15 and 16 respectively, the metal 17 and 18, respectively, remaining above and below said arc-shape slots 15 and 16, being turned or bulged rearwardly to form on the rear face or back of said base-plate 1 suitable pairs of corner pockets or receptacles l9 and 20, for the seating-engage1nent of the opposite upper and lower corners of one or more record or route cards 21.

In suitably attaching the base-plate 2 to the outer face of the car-side l or other support whereon the device is used, the body portion of said base-plate is spaced somewhat away from the said car-side 4 by means of the V-shape formations of crimps 2 so that any water from above can trickle down the face of the car-side without danger of its entering the record-holder for injury to the record or route cards 21, the corner pockets or receptacles 19 and 20 being duly protected against the entrance of any water from above by the presence of the arc-shape beads 13 and let that serve as barriers or watersheds to divert the water from said corner-pockets, the water draining from the lower ends of said bead-formations and passing harmlessly downward along the back of the base-plate 1 so as to drip or drain from its lower edge.

The facing or cover-plate 6 is provided with an inwardly-disposed pin or stop 22 near its lower end that is adapted to engage a hook-formation or a flange 23 at the upper end of the base-plate 1 to prevent the coverplate dislodging or escaping from the upper end of said base-plate when raised to the position seen in Fig. 2 that is sufficiently high to expose the entire face of the recordportion of said base-plate. The inner end of the pin 22 is spaced sufliciently away from the vertical plane of the record-sheets so that it escapes contact with them in the vertical movements of the cover-plate 6 to and from concealing or covering position.

A transverse slot 2 1 is provided at the lower edge of the cover-plate 6 and a similar slot 25 in the lower end of the base-plate 1, both slots alining or registering when the cover-plate is in closed or concealing position so that a strip 26 of soft or pliable metal can be passed therethrough and to receive a lead or like seal 27 that is compressed into locking-place over the ends of said pliable strip 26 by means of the tool customarily used by car-sealers or those intended to have access to the route-cardsbeneath cover-plate 6. A short seamed-extension 25 is provided at said lower end of cover-plate 6 to reinforce it below the transverse slot 24.

I claim 1. In a record or route card holder for freight-cars or the like, the combination of a vertical base-plate or backing provided with attaching and spacing, rearwardly-extending V-shape ribs along its opposite longitudinal edges, lateral inverted-L-shape extensions along the outer edges of said ribs, outwardly-bulging corner-pockets suitably spaced apart and provided on the outer face of said base-plate for the reception of the corners of the record or route cards, rearwardly-bulging beads adjacent the said corner-pockets for shedding or diverting the downward trickle of water along the back of said base-plate, and a right-angled or flanged closure or cover-plate slidably-interlocked with the said V-shape ribs and inverted-L-shape extensions along the longitudinal edges of said base-plate and having a rearwardly-cxtending capping-member that is adapted to telescope and close the upper end of the base-plate when the device is in closed condition for use.

2. In a record or route card holder for freight-cars or like exposed supports, the combination of avertical base-plate or backing having flanged guide-ways along its opposite longitudinal edges and outwardlybulging corner-pocket formations made in its surface and adapted to seat or contain the corners of therrecord or route cards in use, rearwardly-bulging water-sheds made in the base-plate adjacent said corner-pockets, a forwardly-extending stop at the upper end of the base-plate, a closure or cover-plate having longitudinal, flanged formations along its opposite edges adapted to slidingly-interlock with the said guide-ways on the base-plate, a rcarwardly-extending stoppin provided on the inner face of the coverplate, a transverse slot in the lower edge of the base-plate, a downwardly-fianged, rearwardly-extending capping-formation at the top of the cover-plate, a transverse slot in the lower edge of the cover-plate, and a sealing strip or wire adapted to engage both of the said transverse slots in looking the device when closed.

EDWIN. R. PROBERT.

WVitnesses:

JOHN ELIAS JONES, BERL B. RIGDON.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D. C. 

